THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1957.

A Doctor Champions "The Rock"

by

ARTHUR BINNIE

May not excite you on

ENTION of Bill Haley

little bit. But to thousanda and thousands and hundreda of thousands of teenagers on both sides of the Atian- tic he is one of the greatest things that have happened in the world of jazz since New Orleans gave birth to the blues (and Mrs Presley gave birth to Elvis).

Haley, of course, is the Ameri- can musician who had cinema manalisis sweating waxiously at every p45.Oinkulkee Di hus i bul- Ut films, "Hock Around The Clock."

Young folk everywhere went wild with exci

ot hal screen appearance, And up went the cry: "Crazy kids!"

But are they really so crazy? Read what the British Medical Association's moudily munguze "Family DocuF" Kuys on ba subject

I quow": here is nothing wrong with rock 'n' roll. 1 names me exponetha of an EX- harl

lively cruze, meaning only that young people ww yout."

Who

Saya 507 Dr J Mucula

ter brew, a woman doctor, iki Is, whose probe to the T- eral problem

ut rock 'n' roll

leo lier to several einem is w the Muay Buda Rev-reactON VO

Haley with anxi brought her i Cute with many cenugera.

Verdict Vindicates

Her verdiet vindicates to large extra uie much-maligned yousl

Se picks up VerDut of the

'bricka' Wikich have been hung at mata, au nuria miese brek

thear Prudal elach.

For instance: "Rock 'n' rol

anu

го поги groups problem. incsen, lbero unver was all adojkaotik, prossem that Wia noi cieuwd by JADIESS OF Bush

really thoughtiess

Sue goes on,

ine people who are reveal- eds li

una asapisant- iktila ure na the young people but preachers and tenenera

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king pars who have brought a generation which is Emery king levi rom borvoom, JustUTION Bud lone-

Jaas. J

25 костелу

Jass Selim Condez;Defi,...

which

no

· Remaking was the adolescent boy a girl of today are

Banana ārom those of other BMOIS, Ur Blew says that wooksounce is a time of crazes, When

rhythm gets under your

akin,

"Like other crazes, it passes quickly, leaving lule barm in its train. But the inconvenience caused to adulta is more widely spread nowadays, simply be calise more young people can anturu to

the

got rent

"They can afford to satisfy

Cruze of the

monient in

Kuropean

Union

HERE COMES THE BRIDE

arcvRycroft

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

For Refugees--it's The End

of

London.

WAS talking to a hut-

ful

Hungarians through

Yugoslav; speaking Pole. Which illus trates one 'snag' in the way of mutual sympathy be- tween Hungarian refugeeR and a country which shelters them.

com-

The refugees were plaining of the low wages in the jobs they had been? Said the Pole to offered. me quietly: "I don't under- stand these people. I came here ten years ago.

I am still getting only a small

of a Honeymoon

by

Terence Feely

when Jusel Herwas th

"Acert you afraid of being hot?" I asked,

answered than

"Even that, he pasionately, "A better

about here."

Just then a lady friend called on him. He stroiled off, arm in nêm with her, hardly looking like a man who has lost the will to live.

But me like this are a tiny percentage. For most, trouble cones through misunderstanding and lack of words,

INGRATITUDE

to

Take the ingratitude. Said Murthe and Edit Thought I

remember Wils discrimination agalost ww took into Bungury them.

Suspicion and ingratitude aro many Communist refugees from Finally, after five visits to the curable. A blossoming knowledge Greece,

They were

given Exchange and

uf a country ♫ phone call the language

them should nothing but the best,

From the Sister at the hospital, playing host TY slayed in the best they

Kot the

10 climinate "But we help Jobs,

suspicion hotels, go, the best jobs. We, sul feel someone was making and ingratitude, and time is an wage. But I am grateful." es anti-Communists, expected ungs alficult for us.

May ally in that

respect Which justrutes 다 segond the same from the West,"

After all, hundreds of thousand snag-the apparent lack of Difficult to explain that such

of Europese exiles have been of These destitulo things are more easily arranged

assimilated since the war, It'l Hungarians,

under a dicuntorship than in a

not, beyond the capacity of a democracy.

country to digest a fow thousand

bad one of the group. Siman File 'We ate grau we are using this Poje as un interpreter, The official interpreter wists

AL

It was the interpreter, She had dislike in her cyes.”

CONFUSION

sloff

of

tha

tho

Take the suspicion-suspicion, By contrast, and to add 10 more. even, of Hungarian exilés of their confusion, the treatment long-standing who act as refugees get from our words in translation.

tuterpreters,

one Communist He fell does not tell people what we camp I asked group what ungasian Legution is kindly He saying."

and understanding. they most wanted in the near underlines a third future. They replied in Hun- burrier-the invincible gurian. suspicion of oillelakivm of A

raised people

under Communist regime,

JIKA SALA

over

honeymoon period

Hungarians. krom

come tales DI

for everywhere

nsion The bight begaining People here le

hus rural, confused.

DISILLUSION

SUSPICION

Inevitable Of course, it was

That was not true, But whe that Hungarians and their hosis could blame them for thinking should become disillusioned with so? And certainly, he had been each other, A, country takes less than frunk with me.

"I went there," sold 21-year- old Nandor Balog, "to ask about back to Hungary-I was Kong

They asked me, you be

recognised taken

in μάτι

SO

ed up.

Could huving

And thes

in eleven thousand heroes-and Suspicion, again, makes wrong with my back"

und

Цв The

the

"What did they say?" I asked nghting? I told them yes. the interpreter.

They said, 'You would be a "I will have to see the camp fool to go back. You would be

shot. manager first," he replied,

were Coin- "You see?" the refugees cried indsts!" as he moved off. "He has gone There is, of course, a small 10 LCK all this questioning indissoluble core of malcontents; stepped!"

and those, perhaps, are biggest car le of l-fceling,

I met some of them at onc cump, Men with a genius for complaints. Men with "something which eleven simple red tape look sinister. prevented them taking manuni grousing Marthe Nagy and Edit labour. They came Horwarth, two 18-year-olds, got They hate the camp, hate thë in a dream to the Great White themselves jobs at a Mother of the West, and have hospital. When they went to awakened to a country with its Labour Exchange to Bet their manager, "they have never had own Loubles

permits they were told they it so easy. They keep saying But beyond this, the real could not have the jobs and they want to leave. But they 'vilinins' are ingratitude and should not have got them on would die with fright if they suspicion. And I would like to their own initiative. It was a thought they would have to

of them, a powerful served first young man of 22, said he would go back to Hungary.

men

wakes

up to thousand ordinary their leisure, while but few of them

can ind

men and women, creative fuldl- ment in their work.

"And

find

in

because they carulot an outlet for their skilla

a normal direction, they take

& trendled pride in admiring the

skill of others. The saxophonlat has become the modern hero, becauso His skill cry of tor- ment speaks to their condition." Parents come under Dr

Brow's lash for their lack of in- terest in their families' leisure timo

Only Too Thankful

"All to many parents are only too thankful that their adoles- vents go out, thus leaving them to indulge peacefully in their own brand of hypnolie trance before their television seis."

She follows this swiftly with the clzim that few

people who noem to be becoming almost neurotic in their concern certain manifestations of adoleca cent behaviour will offer a few bours of their time helping in

over

youth clubs, whero the objecte

of their derision work off their high spirits.

And she finishes with pertinent questions:

FORTYO

food.

1.

London fophe truth is," said the camp

say this: Take a little trouble case of a rule working against get up off their backsides," and you will see that, in their them-the Jule that British

Onc eyes, they have good cause for nationals must be these emotions,

In Great Britain.

At a time when Britain needs to use all she's got

RED TAPE KEEPS VISCOUNTS GROUNDED

London.

by FRANK MOORE

CITANDING on the tarmac at London Airport are two brand new Viscount

CEL of American abrlines in planes costing

to According £860,000 Viscounts.

Mr Maurice Curtis, managing director of cach. Travellers from all Consequent Overseas pur Hunting-Clan, there would have over the world see them. chases have meant millions of been no question at all of com- The planes are always there Britain.

pounds in hard currency to petition with the State air. they never fly.

Lines The

fact that a British civit airline as against a

"Wo wanted to put our Slate Viscounts into service on When they are not on the subsidised, ono

our wanted 'safari' routes to East Africa to tarmac the two Viscounts Viscounts immediately impress- replace our outdated Vikings," stand in the hangars of the

he said.

od

How do we educate a genera-British Hunting-Clan Air-Tgners.

knew that even 1/ +

could afford to run at There (3-scaler aircraft should loss, a civil airline bad to be carrying hundreds of passen- certain of making profits.

Government-backed organisa- all

tion who will not behave in line. thla fashion, if we do not care far 157

our

those

gors on the company's African

#

Bone

it Hunting-Clauled ness

Is being

busi-

"There was no question at

of us trying to compete purs is quite a different sort of be business. How are we supporting, with

The

What has happened now? original Hunting-Clan Increasing business time or our money, organisations which are providing Hunting-Clan £200 a week

routes. Instead they are cost order

was for Ave Viscounts. inus alternatives?

But after the first three were

by foreign airlines," in rent alotio to

"A great deal of this keep them delivered the How much sto we doing to grounded at London Airport.

would have fallen to ensure that

used British lines, including because

our- All

the

Viscounts British are having Am with the current Government will not let them away

they would tako elves, had irado from B.O.A.C.'s Viscounts.

been using orizon, but are not so lonely and

By in case they take business scheduled services between: unhappy that their jean and jive from British State-owned air London and

"It has been proved - agala have become all-absorbing eam-

East and West and lines,"

Africa.

again that there is a far pensatory addivilDOW?

Brat

greater passenger potential than Huming-Clan were the private enterprise rirline in the

OUTDATED

Just ono stato airline cah world to buy Viscounts. They

CRITY, months

"So why not lat British

also

our own children

The author makes no attempt to answer them. But like Dr Brow

wonder: How many parents eyey nak then? And how many parenta resity face up to those questions?

that

After

of standing

DAL

4

bellaros they were giving Bri- lilo at a cost of £200 a week private enterprise have a zo st tish civil flying a boost.

each, the three aircraft had to doing it instead of precluding The Hunting-Clan order went be leased. Today they by under us and letting foreign lines a long way to arouse the inter- Lebanese colours

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